Experts estimate that millions of people around the world need organ transplants.

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Insects,transplants and seeds can spread infections.

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While an estimated one million Kenyans suffer from kidney disease, dialysis and transplants to battle the condition are limited and expensive.

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We know Kenyatta Hospital has been und ertaking the kidney transplants over the years, for the last 25 years."

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Dr.Patrick Mbugua says Kenyans no longer need to go to India or other places to get their kidney transplants.

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It's one of six kidney transplants done by the Spanish-Kenyan team in mid-March at Kenya's largest public health facility, Kenyatta National Hospital.

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Mayo Clinic researcher Gabriel Thabut. and his colleagues reviewed 20 years of records from more than 15,000 transplants.

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Today,common medical procedures sought overseas include cardiac surgery, knee and hip replacements, liver transplants and dental work.

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Of thousands of hospitals in the United States, only 61 are authorized to do lung transplants.

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"When I was on the waiting list in 2000,there were 84,000 people in the U.S.waiting for solid organ transplants, and about 15 died each day waiting.

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In an accompanying editorial, Edward Livingston of the University of Texas says the relatively small influence of volume on success of the transplants raises a big question.

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Lung transplants are seriously complex surgeries, often performed on desperately sick patients.

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Some high-volume hospitals did as many as 120 transplants a year;

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At the same time, skyrocketing rates of kidney failure, caused by diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, make it urgent to offer more - and more sophisticated - transplants.

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other medical centers did only one. Success rates varied a lot, but according to their statistical analysis, only about one-eighth of the success depended on how many transplants the hospital did a year.

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And some do it better than others. One measure of success is the five-year survival rate, and the lead author of a new study says that number varied dramatically among the different medical centers doing lung transplants.

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"We are able to do these transplants locally. We have got the expertise in this country and the only thing that we needed to do is to publicize and tell them, 'Yes,you do not have to spend all the money and go outside there, leave the comfort of your country and the beloved ones to have the transplants outside there - we can do it here."

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